Mark Amerika has had four retrospectives of his digital art work,
one
at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, one at the
Media
Arts Plaza in Tokyo, one at Ciber@rt Bilbao 2004, and one at the
FILE in Sao Paulo.
His epic online narrative, GRAMMATRON, was selected for the 2000
Whitney Biennial and his sound art work, PHON:E:ME, was commissioned
by the Walker Art Center and the Perth Institute of Contemporary
Art. The third and final project in Amerika’s net art trilogy
is entitled FILMTEXT. The work was commissioned by Playstation 2
as part of his European retrospective.
Amerika has recently toured parts of Japan, Europe, Australia,
and the
USA as a VJ performance artist and out of these performances has
produced a DVD with surround sound entitled CODEWORK. The work was
exhbited at the Denver Art Museum throughout the summer of 2004
and is now part of their permanent collection.
He is presently a professor in the Department of Art and Art History
at
the University of Colorado, Boulder, and more information about
his work
can be found at his website, markamerika.com.
BOOK, Text extract: Excerpts
from 'Portrait of a VJ'
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